Okay, I hope you all like this new story! Just so you know, they will have pokemon in this story. And I also might need a few ocs.
Lyra Kotone wasn't very happy to be standing in front of her new high school. "Central Plains High?" She questioned as her mother ushered her into the school.
"I know this is inconvenient for you, sweetie, but my new job required me to live here. Don't worry, we won't have to move again for another few years and by then you'll be done with highschool." Her mother smiled brightly at her daughter, hoping to cheer her up. "This school looks so nice, so try to keep an open mind, okay?"
"I will I will." Lyra sighed, looking around the room. It was a large room with columns everywhere with posters and flyers covering them, advertising different school events and clubs. The tile on the floor was light blue in a large rectangle shape and turned white when it reached the columns. The lunch area was off to one corner. Tables with small round seats attached to them were folded up there and blocked the lunch area off to any students. Lyra assumed the janitors would unfold the tables and set them out on the blue rectangle when it got closer to lunch. There were large doorways on each side of the room that led down hallways lined with lockers. The office was set to face the lunchroom and had large windows that allowed them to watch the area. Doors on the farther side of the room led outside to covered walkways and large grassy areas, including the stadium and different fields for different sports.
"Seems like a great school, huh?" Her mom asked and walked into the office. Lyra followed her in.
"Good morning." A man in a suit with a bright red tie said. His brown hair was slicked back and he had dark eyes. "I'm the principle, Giovanni." The man introduced himself to them both.
"Hello, I'm Sarah Kotone and this is my daughter, Lyra." Her mother beamed, shaking the man's hand.
"Ah yes, we've been expecting you. We have a few papers we need you to fill out quickly." He led her mother down a small hallway into his office and Lyra plopped down onto a chair they had in the mini lounge area in the office. A tv hooked onto a tv stand on the wall quietly murmured as the weather man gave the forecast for the rest of the week.
Lyra looked down at her white and red sneakers and fiddled with her shoulder bag. She wished her mother let her unpack all of her things before enrolling her in school. All she could find that was school appropriate were jean shorts that went to her knees, a red shirt and a white jacket. Her hair was pulled back into two pigtails, as usual. She wanted to dress a little nicer, since it was her first day, but it was too late for that now.
"Don't whine." A woman's voice said from further back in the office. A woman appeared from the doorway and set her things on one of the two desks that were in the front of the office. "Good morning sweetheart, you need something?"
"Oh, no ma'am. My mom is in the back with the principle."
"So you're new here?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Well that's just wonderful! Ethan, come here. What was your name, sweetheart?"
"Lyra Kotone." Lyra answered as a boy with black hair that stuck out through his gold and black baseball cap that he wore backwards on his head.
"This is my son, Ethan. Ethan, this is Lyra Kotone, she's new here. Would you mind showing her around once the principle gives me her paperwork?"
"No problem." Ethan shrugged and walked over to Lyra. He slid his bookbag off of his shoulder and it slumped to the floor as he sat in a chair next to her. "So, what grade are you in?"
"Eleventh. I'm a junior." Lyra nodded as the boy smiled at her. He had bright gold eyes and she guessed that he always had a smile on his face.
"Me too! I'll have to check out your schedule once my mom pulls it up. Maybe we have a few classes together."
"I hope you're good at math, Ethan needs a good tutor." His mother told Lyra, making the girl chuckle while Ethan flushed with embarrassment.
"Mom!" He groaned as Lyra's mother re-appeared from the back of the office with a few papers in her hand. She handed them to Ethan's mom and smiled at Lyra.
"Already made a new friend?"
"Yes. He's going to show me around the school." Lyra told her mom and Ethan jumped up to shake her mother's hand and introduce himself.
"I'm Ethan Hibiki, ma'am." He said politely, knowing his mother would throw something at him if he didn't. He didn't need to get in trouble. Again.
"That's great, thank you for doing that Ethan! I'm Ms. Kotone." Her mother smiled back, impressed with the boy. "Well sweetie, I'm going to head home and finish with the unpacking. If you need me, just call me, okay?" She kissed Lyra's forehead and left the office.
"Lyra, here's your schedule!" Ethan's mother said, handing the girl a gold piece of paper. "This is your homeroom, but we only go to that on certain days. Here is your locker number and the combination. Ethan can take you by the library so they can give you the books you need for your classes. Try out your locker and go by every one of your classes so you'll know where they are."
"No worries mom, I know what to do." Ethan smiled and pulled his bookbag back onto his back. "I'll see you later." He told his mom and held the office door open for Lyra. She smiled at him and they left together. He took her schedule and looked it over. "Sweet, we have three classes together. I hope you're good at math.."He muttered the last part, taking her towards the library to get her books. Once they got them, he took her by her locker so she could put them up. "Your locker is near your 4th period, those are what we call the classes, which is math with me! My locker is just two down." Ethan explained. "Okay, let's start with your first class. We only have 30 more minutes until school starts."
Ethan showed her all her classes while talking about the school and his pokemon. She was excited to hear he had a typhlosion, the evolutionary form of her cyndaquil. She was a little worried because the classes seemed to be more focused on pokemon than her other school had been. They even had a gym period where they would train and battle each other! She knew she wouldn't be able to win many battles since her pokemon weren't the strongest. Her mareep, Fritz, was a cutie, but it wasn't the strongest pokemon.
Soon people began to gather in the main area of the school, right in front of the office. Ethan explained that people either hung around outside, or came into the building and stood in the light blue rectangle and chatted with one another. He also told her his address and luckily she lived close by, so he told her his mom and he could come pick her up and they could come to school together.
"Really? That would be great! Your mom doesn't mind, does she?"
"No, she won't mind."
"Thanks so much! I was worried I wasn't going to have a good first day." Lyra admitted as they found an open spot in the sea of students who were standing on the blue tile.
"Anyday is a good day when you have me in it!" Ethan laughed. "Well I wasn't going to let you wander around confused. Who knows who would scoop you up? You gotta watch your back around this school."
"Hm? Why?" Lyra asked, now confused.
"Well…" Ethan started, but was cut off by a male with red spiked up hair with a small piece falling onto his face. He looked a little older than Ethan, but had the same friendly smile as the boy. "Oh, hey Lance!" Ethan greeted the other male. "Lyra, this is Lance, the senior class president. Lance, this is Lyra. She just moved here."
"Ah, nice to meet you!" Lance shook her hand and kept a warm smile on his face. His hand was tough, but gentle at the same time. "Has Ethan already showed you around the school?"
"Nice to meet you too! Yes, he was a great tour guide." Lyra replied and Ethan gave her a thumb up.
"Good, but if you ever have a question, you can always ask me. Ethan likes to think he knows everything when he really doesn't." Lance joked. Lyra and he laughed while Ethan just pouted at them. "Do you mind if I look at your schedule?" Lyra shook her head and handed him the gold colored paper. "Ah, we have 2nd together. I hope you're a good opponent." Lance looked over her schedule once more before handing it back to her.
Lyra knew what he was talking about. 2nd period was gym, which was where they trained their pokemon and battled. She was going to be so embarrassed in front of everyone.
She pushed that to the back of her mind and turned to Ethan once more. "What were you saying before? About how I should watch my back?"
"Well, there are a few gangs around this school." Ethan said and Lyra felt a little jolt of nervousness. Gangs? "They're sort of like clubs…or groups…maybe teams?" Ethan looked at Lance for some help.
"They aren't super violent or anything, they aren't like the gangs you're probably thinking of Lyra." Lance explained, putting Lyra at ease. "You should still watch your back for them."
"Who are they?" She asked and looked around at all the people surrounding them.
"You'll see them soon enough, most of them are in our 2nd period." Ethan said and put his hands in his pockets. "They have some games coming up. Like an Olympic event or something like that, so things might get a little hectic around here." The bell rang as he finished his sentence. The three said goodbye and parted ways. Lyra, once dreading gym, was now anxious to get to it. She wanted to know who the gangs were. She didn't want to befriend any of them if they were going to be bad news!
"Hey." A voice said and she snapped out of her thoughts and looked around the area. People were moving all around her and she couldn't locate the owner of the voice. "Here." A hand held out something to her and she realized it was one of her buttons that she had on her bag.
"Oh, thank you!" She took the button and looked up at the person who returned her button. She was met with cold green eyes that had a bit of terror in them. They belonged to a male with short green hair that stuck out of the sides of his head in an old fashion. His expression was nothing close to warm and friendly as he muttered a "You're welcome" and turned from her, disappearing into a crowd of people.
She stared after him and then hurried to her 1st class, wondering who the male was.
Okay, I really hope you like this and I hope you're interested in it. I've never done a story like this, but I really think I can do a good job on it. Plus, I adore LyraxProton, so I'm going to work super hard on this story! I've already written out the basic plot for the next few chapters too!